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Running a marathon
I have signed up to run the New York marathon in November. I have been training for a while but I am about to start ramping up my training for the event.
I have built a physique that I am pleased with over the last 3 years but I am concerned that I will lose all my hard work by doing large amounts of cardio. If I continue to lift weights alongside long distance running will it affect my training? Is keeping my protein intake high through the training enough to keep the muscle I have?
Cheers in advance
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July 24th, 2007 at 9:59 am
something natural like HMB(which i beleive maximuscle produces) has been proven to be benefecial in helping maintain muscle mass and could give you an edge. other than that make sure you are eating enough to cover the calories you will burn in training and good luck for the marathon!
July 24th, 2007 at 10:53 am
hi,
yes this may prove to be a problem! although there are many methods you can use to prevent catabolism (brakdown of muscle tissue for energy)
1) make sure if you are continuing weight training to always do the weights session before the cardio! thats if you are doing both in the same session. But the best method would be to split them up into defferent days completely!
2) yes keep the protein intake high! around 2g per pound of bodyweight!
3) keep your carbs high! this will provide your body with energy to burn instead of valuble muscle.
4) take suplements that will prevent catabolism and overtraining -
BCAA’S (reflex bcaa’s) and Glutamine (reflex L-Glutamine)
5) i suggest if you are training for long distance running to lift with high reps eg 15-20 with good form! this will maintain your current phsique and improve muscle tone! as i guess you dont want to add alot of mass to drag round the marathon ha ha
hope this helps
chris
July 25th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Cheers for the advice.
You are right, I definately don’t want to build more muscle in the build up to the marathon. I would be happy to maintain what I have and use the marathon training to strip that last bit of fat that is near impossible to shift. I will continue to use Promax and and will give the other supplements a try using the money I am no longer spending on beer.
Thanks again